CHAPTER 37 Quiz — The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

Comprehension Quiz: CHAPTER 37

What is the first missing item Aunt Sally complains about at breakfast?

  • A pewter spoon from the kitchen drawer
  • Uncle Silas's shirt from the clothesline
  • Six tallow candles from the pantry shelf
  • A brass candlestick from the sitting-room

How many items in total does Aunt Sally discover are missing during the breakfast scene?

  • Three items: a shirt, a spoon, and a sheet
  • Four items: a shirt, a spoon, candles, and a sheet
  • Five items: a shirt, a spoon, six candles, a sheet, and a candlestick
  • Six items: a shirt, two spoons, candles, a sheet, and a candlestick

What does Aunt Sally blame for the missing candles?

  • The children playing with fire in the barn
  • Uncle Silas using them for late-night reading
  • The rats that get in through unplugged holes
  • The enslaved workers taking them for their cabins

How does the missing spoon reappear?

  • Huck secretly places it back on the table before anyone notices
  • Uncle Silas accidentally fishes it out of his own coat pocket
  • One of the children finds it hidden under a chair cushion
  • Tom pretends to discover it behind the sugar-bowl at dinner

What Bible passage does Uncle Silas say he was studying when the spoon ended up in his pocket?

  • The Book of Psalms, Chapter 23
  • The Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 7
  • Acts Seventeen (Acts, Chapter 17)
  • The Book of Proverbs, Chapter 31

What good deed do Huck and Tom perform for Uncle Silas in the cellar?

  • They organize his collection of old tools and pots
  • They stop up all the rat-holes that he has been promising to fix
  • They clean out the flour bins and restock them for Aunt Sally
  • They repair the broken lock on the lean-to door to the shed

What does Huck say about Uncle Silas after watching him in the cellar?

  • "He was the most forgetful man I ever did see in all my days."
  • "He was a mighty nice old man. And always is."
  • "He warn't no trouble at all, and we was lucky to have him."
  • "He was as honest a man as ever walked, but simple as a child."

How does Tom's spoon-counting trick work?

  • Tom hides spoons under the tablecloth and reveals them one at a time
  • Huck slips a spoon in and out of his sleeve while Tom counts aloud, changing the total each time
  • Tom switches identical spoons so that Aunt Sally counts the same spoon twice
  • Huck distracts Aunt Sally while Tom removes spoons from the basket permanently

What does Aunt Sally do to the cat during the spoon-counting scene?

  • She chases it out of the kitchen with a broom handle
  • She accidentally steps on its tail while pacing in frustration
  • She slams the spoon-basket across the house and knocks the cat "galley-west"
  • She throws the cat outside and locks the kitchen door behind it

How do Huck and Tom ultimately deliver the stolen spoon to Jim?

  • They pass it through the tunnel under Jim's cabin bed
  • They hide it inside a corn-pone and place it in Jim's food pan
  • They drop it in Aunt Sally's apron pocket for Jim to retrieve
  • They toss it through the window-hole into the cabin at night

Why do the boys have so much trouble baking the witch-pie?

  • They cannot find enough flour to make enough dough for a full crust
  • The pie crust keeps caving in because they only need a hollow crust with no filling
  • The fire keeps going out in the rain and they cannot maintain cooking temperature
  • Nat keeps interrupting their work to check on the progress of the pie

What do the boys ultimately use to bake the successful witch-pie?

  • A cast-iron skillet borrowed from Aunt Sally's kitchen
  • The original tin washpan from the rubbage-pile after sealing it properly
  • Uncle Silas's brass warming-pan, a family heirloom from the garret
  • A large clay pot that Jim had been using inside his cabin

What historical error does Huck make about the warming-pan's origin?

  • He says it was brought by Columbus on his first voyage to America
  • He says it came with William the Conqueror in the Mayflower
  • He claims it was a gift from King George III during the Revolution
  • He says it traveled with the Pilgrims aboard the Santa Maria

What does Jim do after receiving the witch-pie?

  • He eats the crust and uses the rope-ladder to escape that night
  • He breaks open the pie, hides the rope-ladder in his straw tick, and scratches marks on a tin plate
  • He shares the pie with Nat and hides the rope under the cabin floor
  • He throws the entire pie out the window to retrieve the rope from outside

What literary device is primarily at work during the spoon-counting scene?

  • Foreshadowing, hinting at the eventual failure of the escape plan
  • Dramatic irony, since the reader knows Huck is manipulating the count while Aunt Sally does not
  • Allegory, representing the moral confusion of slavery in antebellum America
  • Flashback, recalling a similar trick Huck played on Pap in an earlier chapter

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